CVE-2011-1823 — Android OS Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
CVE-2011-1823: Android OS Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)
| Vendor / project | Android |
| Product | Android OS |
| Date added | 2022-09-08 |
| Due date | 2022-09-29 |
| Ransomware campaign use | Unknown |
Description
The vold volume manager daemon in Android kernel trusts messages from a PF_NETLINK socket, which allows an attacker to execute code and gain root privileges. This vulnerability is associated with GingerBreak and Exploit.AndroidOS.Lotoor.
Required action (CISA)
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Notes
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/vold/+/c51920c82463b240e2be0430849837d6fdc5352e; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1823
Weakness behind it
CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-189. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.
References
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1823
- KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
See all 1,745 pages under Vulnerabilities (CVE) →
Related pages
Browse by topic
Every page in the corpus, grouped. Search finds one page; this shows what else is here.